Text Formatting ⇒ Removing Spacing before Chapter with titlesec causes errors

[lvlanson]

Hey there,

I am trying to remove the spacing before the chapter. I have come across quite a few solutions.

I am trying to put this command into the configuration, using titlesec.

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\usepackage[compact]{titlesec}
\renewcommand{\abovechapterskip}{\vspace*{10pt}}

For each use of \section I get an error.

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! Missing number, treated as zero.<to be read again>} \section{TEXT}
! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted). <to be read again> \section{TEXT}

The latex code at the concerning looks like this

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\chapter{Grundlagen}
\label{grundlagen}
\section{Erklärende Begriffe}
\label{sec:begriffe}

There is some problem with titlesec and the use of section. Help is greatly appreciated.

[Ijon Tichy]

titlesec does not provide a command \abovechapterskip. So it seems you are using a class or another package, that provides this command. Maybe titlesec is not compatible with that class or package. So please show us a minimal working example not only some code snippets.

[lvlanson]

This is the template I have used, so these are the settings basically.

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%Dokumentklasse
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{scrreprt}
\usepackage[left= 2.5cm,right = 2.5cm, bottom = 4 cm, top = 3 cm]{geometry}
%\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
% ============= Packages =============

% Dokumentinformationen
\usepackage[
	pdftitle={XXXXXXXXXX},
	pdfsubject={},
	pdfauthor={XXXXXXXXXX},
	pdfkeywords={},	
	hidelinks
]{hyperref}


% Standard Packages
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx, subfig}
\graphicspath{{img/}}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{float}

\usepackage[backend = biber,
			bibencoding = utf8,
			%style = ieee
			style = authoryear
			%style = authortitle,
			%style = alphabetic,
			]{biblatex}

\addbibresource{biblio.bib}
\usepackage{listings}

\lstdefinestyle{Python}{
    language        = Python,
    basicstyle      = \ttfamily,
    keywordstyle    = \color{blue},
    stringstyle     = \color{codegreen},
    commentstyle    = \color{burgundy}\ttfamily
}

\lstset{
    frame       = single,
    numbers     = left,
    showspaces  = false,
    xleftmargin = 0.7cm,
    showstringspaces    = false,
    captionpos  = t,
    caption     = \lstname,
    tabsize 	  = 2,
    literate={\ \ }{{\ }}1
}

\def\inline{\lstinline[basicstyle=\ttfamily,keywordstyle={}]}

\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}

\setlength\parskip{0.8em} 

\pagestyle{fancy}
%
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{\slshape \leftmark}
%
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{\thepage}
\rfoot{}
%%
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}

\begin{document}
%Seiten ohne Kopf- und Fußzeile sowie Seitenzahl
\pagestyle{empty}

\chapter{Foundation}
\label{foundation}
\section{Terminology}
\label{sec:term}
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[Bartman]

The KOMA classes and the titlesec package offer tools to set the output of the structure commands. As the two are not coordinated with one another, this leads to problem spots as expected.

Have a look at section 21.8. Sections in the documentation of the used class.

Some off topic hints:

Read issue 28 in ltnews on CTAN on the subject of UTF-8.

hyperref should, with a few exceptions, be the last package to be loaded.

Note that so-called information entries (section 3), if they are needed, should be added after loading the package with the help of the \hypersetup command.

You should also read section 21.6. "Paragraph Indention or Gap" and visit the chapter about the adaption of page headers and footers.